IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL RANK.
[PBSSS ASSOCIATION TBLBOBAtf.I WELLINGTON, May 1. The following regulations with reference to the precedence of Imperial and Colonial military officers, received from the Secretary of State for War. is published in to-night's Gazette :—"Officers of our army serving in any of our. colonies or dependencies (except as provided in article 112), under commission signed by us, shall have precedence of colonial officers of equal rank, but any.: such „ officers holding local rank conferred upon them by the colonial authorities, shall take rank with colonial officers according to the dates of their respective commissions. Local or temporary rank granted to an officer of our army on assuming command of colonial forces, or when proceeding to a colony for any special service, bhall be conferred by us, and such officer shall have precedence of all colonial officers of equal rank."
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Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7540, 2 May 1890, Page 6
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